The harmonic variation follows often a descending movement per semitones: in Dead things the lower note of the right hand descends from G natural to G flat to F, and the bass eagerly follows this sort of passus duriusculus (bars 89-94).

If the suffering of the divine goat of classical culture shown in the "goat song"--that is, in tragedy turns in the Middle Ages into the drama performed in the Passion of Christ, Valverde de Lucerna, a "villa feudal y medieval" (120), becomes the general stage where the redeeming new passion (from the Latin passus, "sufrimiento") reenacted by don Manuel takes place.

In the Clarinet Quintet, toccata style, passus duriusculus, and canon all appear in a structural complex that bases parts of the first movement on the Gavotte, the second on the Sarabande and the third and fourth movements on variations of the Sarabande's second movement.

1) in the last passus, where Will falls asleep and dreams of the arrival of a seductive Antichrist who "in mannes foorme" will appear to "spedde mennys nedis" even while uprooting truth, "as he a god were" (fol.

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